Footnotes to the Sun

John E. Simonds

May 2015 · iUniverse

About this ebook

In this his second book of poetry, retired Honolulu and former Washington D.C. newsman John E. Simonds explores further experiences, travels, family milestones and personal encounters. Footnotes to the Sun pursues his interests in running and reflection, while also revisiting some compass points of life. A Depression era child of New England parents, he provides glimpses of youth in New York’s lower Hudson valley, early newspaper days in Indiana and Ohio, historic brushes in Washington, D.C., and mid-life to later years in Hawai’i. Four decades in ever-changing Honolulu have provided more than enough to examine, but Simonds also shares personal insights on pills and prayer in Manhattan, life changes over time, stress and serenity in the Pacific, family deaths in Connecticut and California, links to the past refocused by travel. Footnotes offers a range of verse forms—short pieces, detailed narratives, prose poems—sprinkled with dry humor from the East Oahu flood zone where Simonds has lived with his family since the 1970s, a few hundred yards from the Pacific, a natural neighbor that bears watching.

About the author

Don Beck joined Involver in June of 2011 as the President and Chief Executive Officer. Involver was a fast growing social media marketing company that eventually sold to Oracle in July 2012. Before Involver, Don held key executive positions in numerous companies including Postini (sold to Google in 2006), Adobe, JD Edwards and IBM. Beck has over thirty years of sales, marketing and senior operational experience in the high tech sector. Don holds a B.A. in Marketing from Michigan State University and an M.B.A. from Miami University. He is an active mentor with Tech Starts in Boulder, Colorado. He resides in Castle Pines, Colorado with his wife Susan and have three children; Lindsay, Danny and Ryan.